Jumana Bayeh is an Early Career Fellow in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Australia. She was most recently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and has held fellowships at the University of Copenhagen and the Lebanese American University in Beirut.

• Part I: War and the City1. The Urban Space: Beirut at War 302. The Destruction of West Beirut in Tony Hanania’s Unreal City 413. Undermining the Christian City in Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game 66Part II: Home, Mobility, Immobility4. Domicile and Diaspora: Women Write the Home 935. Stasis and Domesticity in Nada Awar Jarrar’s Somewhere, Home 1036. Home and Movement in Alia Yunis’ The Night Counter 132Part III: Contesting the Nation-State 7. Nation, State and Diaspora 1618. One Land or Two? Israel and Palestine in Amin Maalouf’s Ports of Call173Conclusion: Place and Diaspora Literature196 Notes203Bibliography225

Jumana Bayeh is an Early Career Fellow in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Australia. She was most recently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and has held fellowships at the University of Copenhagen and the Lebanese American University in Beirut.

• Part I: War and the City1. The Urban Space: Beirut at War 302. The Destruction of West Beirut in Tony Hanania’s Unreal City 413. Undermining the Christian City in Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game 66Part II: Home, Mobility, Immobility4. Domicile and Diaspora: Women Write the Home 935. Stasis and Domesticity in Nada Awar Jarrar’s Somewhere, Home 1036. Home and Movement in Alia Yunis’ The Night Counter 132Part III: Contesting the Nation-State 7. Nation, State and Diaspora 1618. One Land or Two? Israel and Palestine in Amin Maalouf’s Ports of Call173Conclusion: Place and Diaspora Literature196 Notes203Bibliography225

Jumana Bayeh is an Early Career Fellow in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Australia. She was most recently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and has held fellowships at the University of Copenhagen and the Lebanese American University in Beirut.

• Part I: War and the City1. The Urban Space: Beirut at War 302. The Destruction of West Beirut in Tony Hanania’s Unreal City 413. Undermining the Christian City in Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game 66Part II: Home, Mobility, Immobility4. Domicile and Diaspora: Women Write the Home 935. Stasis and Domesticity in Nada Awar Jarrar’s Somewhere, Home 1036. Home and Movement in Alia Yunis’ The Night Counter 132Part III: Contesting the Nation-State 7. Nation, State and Diaspora 1618. One Land or Two? Israel and Palestine in Amin Maalouf’s Ports of Call173Conclusion: Place and Diaspora Literature196 Notes203Bibliography225